Sunshine Laundromat & Pinball

860 Manhattan Avenue | Greenpoint | built 1884

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1884
Claus Dunkhase builds a row of six flathouses for John Kuntz, including No. 860
No. 860 Manhattan Avenue is the end of a row of six four-story neo-Grec flathouses, Nos. 846-860, that Claus Dunkhase built in 1884 for John Kuntz. The ground floors were commercial and the upper floors held flats. The landmarks report notes that Kuntz had put up five nearly identical flathouses, the Manhattan Buildings, at Nos. 880-892 the year before.
“The row was built by Claus Dunkhase in 1884 for John Kuntz.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2016
Sunshine Laundromat gets a license to serve beer and wine beside its pinball machines
Peter Rose and Michael Medovoy, the building owner's son, began filling the laundromat with classic pinball machines, then turned a 1,000-square-foot storage room into a bar. Their paperwork was finished in early 2016, which made Sunshine the only laundromat in New York City able to serve alcohol legally. Atlas Obscura counts more than 23 pinball machines in the back room, behind a stack of washing machines, while the laundry up front still runs.
Source: atlasobscura.com

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